The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

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Monday, July 27, 2015

The Oregon Brewers Festival as an Example of Status Hierarchy Gaming

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Two friends recently attended the Oregon Brewers Festival, a favorite of beer lovers, and one of them complained along the following lines: ...

Monday, March 4, 2013

Fixing the Clinical Trial System

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This is cross-posted at my cognitive science blog . The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has released a repor...

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Innovation and Education: A Reason for Slowing Growth?

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A while back I argued that the increasing time to educate professionals able to create technical innovations (and therefore growth) could ul...

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Expanding the FDA's Current Model to Other Industries?

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Previously I asked whether it would be a good thing to have a software FDA - a central agency that made you go through a lengthy and incred...

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Christine O'Donnell and Noam Chomsky: BFF

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Here's a by-now famous quote about Delaware Senatorial candidate christine O'Donnell: "American scientific companies are cross...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

A Different Model for Biomedical Risk and Innovation

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One of the interesting things about the FDA as a government agency is that it largely seems to be trusted by Americans, and respected (if gr...

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